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...states today permit law-abiding citizens to carry concealed handguns in public. Such laws have led unequivocally to marked decreases in crime. They have cut murder by 7.65 percent, rape by 5.2 percent, and aggravated assault by seven percent. The seminal analysis by University of Chicago researcher John Lott and others, which examined all 3,054 U.S. counties and arrived at these conclusions, has yet to be seriously undermined...
...household logically lead to more accidental deaths? Admittedly, guns kill a few children every year (although more drown in pools). But such statistics, in and of themselves, do not account for the amount of crime deterred and thus the number of lives saved by the presence of a gun. Lott concluded that counties without "conceal and carry" laws could have prevented a total of 1,414 murders, 4,177 rapes and 60,363 aggravated assaults by enacting them...
Microsoft moved quickly to appeal Judge Jackson's ruling--to Congress and to the court of public opinion--and it seemed to be working. Senate majority leader Trent Lott called on fellow lawmakers to investigate whether the Administration had pushed the company too far. House majority leader Dick Armey (dubbed "MS Dick Armey" for his pro-Redmond sympathies) said he'd "rather break up the Justice Department" than Microsoft. Republicans put Al Gore on notice that they intend to make an issue of the case this fall, but Democrats seemed just as caught up as the G.O.P. was in Gatesmania...
George W. Bush and Trent Lott have said they wouldn't fill out the long form because it invades their privacy. Well, I long for the long form. For I and most Americans I know feel cheated of our inalienable right to talk about ourselves. I wanted to write about how much I can bench-press, what I can cook and all the celebrities I've met. I wanted to give away our pet names for each other and exaggerate how many times a day we have sex. Although I think I just made up for that...
...softened their resistance somewhat in recent days, chastised perhaps by the specter of reduced spending in their constituencies. The Census Bureau has taken little time out of its schedule to respond to political attacks, leaving that role to President Clinton and newspapers like the New York Times, which called Lott's preliminary resistance "irresponsible." But while they're staying out of the political fray, the bureau has invested heavily in television ads, currently in rotation across the country, which depict various and wholly unpleasant effects of dismissing the importance of a census form. A young mother struggling to hold down...